Forest Falcons are not birds you bump into too often, even when touring the Americas as I do. OK, they're not too tricky to hear, but seeing one is a different story completely. So encountering Collared Forest-Falcons on consecutive days here in Mexico is quite an event. Our first was a bird flying across the Tobara mangroves at San Blas after calling out of sight for quarter of an hour or so. This was to be surpassed the follwoing day at Cerro de San Juan however. We were just about done and leaving for our hotel when two Collared Forest-Falcons were found perched in dry forest on a bank above the road. After brief copulation one flew off into cover leaving one bird (right) on view for sometime. A species I'd never photographed before so very welcome indeed. Coincidently my previous sighting of this ace bird-killer was also at this very same site during the 2008 W. Mexico tour.
Monday, 16 March 2009
MEXICO 2009: Collared Forest Falcons.
Forest Falcons are not birds you bump into too often, even when touring the Americas as I do. OK, they're not too tricky to hear, but seeing one is a different story completely. So encountering Collared Forest-Falcons on consecutive days here in Mexico is quite an event. Our first was a bird flying across the Tobara mangroves at San Blas after calling out of sight for quarter of an hour or so. This was to be surpassed the follwoing day at Cerro de San Juan however. We were just about done and leaving for our hotel when two Collared Forest-Falcons were found perched in dry forest on a bank above the road. After brief copulation one flew off into cover leaving one bird (right) on view for sometime. A species I'd never photographed before so very welcome indeed. Coincidently my previous sighting of this ace bird-killer was also at this very same site during the 2008 W. Mexico tour.
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